As Managing Partner for the DC office, Lisa Throckmorton runs business operations for the team, alongside strategic oversight on client engagements. She joined REQ through the acquisition of SpeakerBox Communications in 2019. Lisa couples her big picture and creative thinking with vast industry experience to provide strategic oversight on client accounts, enabling her teams to deliver against aggressive communications goals.
Long embedded at the epicenter of DC’s tech scene, Lisa brings creativity and strategy to her work giving voice to innovative organizations and companies, helping them stand out from their competitors and raising the profiles of the clients she works with and the region itself. She brings a keen understanding of clients’ markets, growth mechanisms, and measures of success to help them own their stories and realize their visions.
She serves on the Advisory Board for Radford University’s College of Humanities and Behavioral Science, the Organizing Committee for The Agora Initiative, and the Organizing Board of Mindshare.
In 2017, Lisa was named to Washingtonian Magazine’s “Top 100 Tech Titans” as well as the Techweek 100 for DC. She has been listed among the “Power Women in Tech” by Tech Bisnow and was awarded a Brava Award by SmartCEO. She is a two-time finalist for Washington Women in PR’s Woman of the Year and has been listed among the “Top 10 Most Powerful Women in the DC Startup Community” by IntheCapital (now DCInno). She has been a finalist for PR News’s PR People Awards Agency Executive of the Year.
Women In Technology (WIT), a DC organization dedicated to advancing women in technology in the DC metro area, has honored Lisa with its President’s Award for outstanding contributions to its mission and as a finalist for the organization’s Rising Star Award.
Lisa holds a BA in English from Radford University. Currently, she resides in Northern VA with her husband Josh, their three kids, and dogs Willow and Scherzer. Outside of work, she loves live music, DC sports, cooking, and running vacations with her friends.
